Poison
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Eleganza: Our Wacky, Wacky World
Column by John Mendelssohn, Creem, September 1986
IN THE EARLY '70s, we Americans called it glitter and the English glam, but by any other name it would still be mass transvestitism. It's ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 16 April 1987
Last year an LA indie album hit the streets called Look What The Cat Dragged In. It took 12 days and $23,000 to record. A ...
Hollywood Teasers: Poison: St Louis Arena, Missouri
Live Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 14 May 1988
WITHIN two numbers, Bret Michaels is prostrate and pushing his amply-stuffed, cellophane-tight crotch at the stage, ass pumping in the air, breath heavy, grin spreading. ...
Report and Interview by Carol Clerk, Melody Maker, 11 February 1989
'EVERY ROSE HAS ITS THORN' WAS NUMBER ONE IN AMERICA OVER CHRISTMAS. THE OPEN UP AND SAY...AHH! LP CRUISED INTO THE US TOP 10 AND ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, RAW, 7 March 1989
They say 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn'. Or at least POISON do in the title of their current hit single. And certainly the Los Angeles ...
Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 5 August 1989
The macho world of Heavy Metal is not the most likely place to find a female film director, but PENELOPE SPHEERIS took her camera and ...
Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 26 August 1989
Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Neighbours, Rolf Harris (and his Stylophone), Skippy, Rupert Murdoch... these days, there's no escaping the ongoing onslaught of dodgy Australian 'culture'. ...
Poison: Flesh And Blood (Enigma)
Review by Paul Sexton, Select, September 1990
THE CHALLENGE for Poison was to fulfill the corporate responsibility, having sold Open Up And Say... Aaah! to five million Americans, and still kick the ...
Review by Deborah Frost, The Village Voice, 18 September 1990
KIP WINGER is a hunk. And what a perfect hunk he is. With his Harlequin hero name, decepticon logo, and carefully exposed nipple, he's engineered ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Rolling Stone, 20 September 1990
THE DOWNFALL of Poison, whose first two albums showcased a carefree marriage of '60s bubblegum to '70s hard rock, can be traced to the day ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 31 October 1991
With their devils, of more accurately CC DeVille, exorcised, POISON are ready to add thoroughbred musicianship to mass popularity. With a new guitarist, Richie Kotzen, ...
Poison: Native Tongue (Capitol) **½
Review by Deborah Frost, Rolling Stone, 18 March 1993
"OH, NO, NO," moans Bret Michaels during the final, crashing chords of the newly reconstituted Poison's attempt to reestablish its lacquered toehold on the bubble-metal ...
Report by Alan di Perna, Musician, May 1995
IN JANUARY OF 1992, singer Vince Neil appeared on the cover of this magazine, lighting a cigar with a thousand-dollar bill. His band, Mötley Crüe, ...
Party On, Dude: Rock Package Tours
Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 24 May 2001
GET READY, Houston, 'cuz here they come – rolling into town in waves all summer long. No, not the Bayou City's infamous mosquito swarms, but ...
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